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- Title
Siting Homeless Shelters in Calgary: Impacts of the New Land Use Bylaw and the Local Development Process.
- Authors
Muller, Larissa; Kuzmak, Natasha
- Abstract
The authors examine how the change from Calgary Land Use Bylaw 2P80 to Calgary Land Use Bylaw 1P2007 will affect the siting of homeless shelters in Calgary. The analysis of barriers and facilitative mechanisms to siting shelters under each bylaw was based on a review of the land use bylaws, documents describing approvals and development processes, siting precedents, plus key informant interviews with city planners, local politicians and facility siters, as well as a focus group of community association representatives to provide the viewpoints of major stakeholders in the development process. Under LUB 2P80 human care facilities (e.g., shelters, detoxification centres) were combined under the land use 'special care facility'. However, LUB 1P2007 divides the uses under special care facility, incurring many changes to the approvals and development process for shelters. Through siting success is not dependent on the process used to site a facility (i.e., development permit process versus land use amendment process), LUB 1P2007 addresses some problems that developed from LUB 2P80, while creating others. A major recommendation is to recombine many of the land uses formally under special care facility and designate them as discretionary land uses.
- Subjects
CALGARY (Alta.); ALBERTA; HOMELESS shelters; LAND use planning; LAND use; GOVERNMENT policy; URBANIZATION; URBAN planning; URBAN growth; BY-laws
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2010, Vol 19, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1188-3774
- Publication type
Article